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tony barnhill
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The Leon Kelner Orchestra playing in the Blue Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans...broadcast on WWL in New Orleans.....you old enough to remember that, Mickey?
Anyone remember when Dick Beondi left WWL in Chicago? Wasn't there something he did or said to cause the move?
Anyone remember when Dick Beondi left WWL in Chicago? Wasn't there something he did or said to cause the move?
bgbassplyr
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'Dip switch on the floor?'
How about starter pedal on the floor, to the right of the gas pedal.
Roll out windshield.
Suicide doors.
Single tail light.
Skatemobile.
Paper airplanes.
Wooden ironing board top for a surfboard (belly board).
Lionel electric trains. American Flyer electric trains.
Christmas bicycle.
How about starter pedal on the floor, to the right of the gas pedal.
Roll out windshield.
Suicide doors.
Single tail light.
Skatemobile.
Paper airplanes.
Wooden ironing board top for a surfboard (belly board).
Lionel electric trains. American Flyer electric trains.
Christmas bicycle.
judow
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Anybody remember "Chum" gum? Three sticks for a penny. As I recall my jaws were sore from trying to chew it. BBBats, waxed teeth, double bubble, squirrels, those candies on paper that looked like little dots, waxed mustaches (the candy ones). Succinctly I'm older than dirt and proud of it. Oh yes did anyone mention Fannie Brice as Baby Snooks, Let's Pretend, Queen for a Day, The 2nd Mrs. Burton and Helen Trent?
It would seem we can keep this thread going on forever. It sure did make me think about my childhood. As an f/y/i not too long ago I bought a real Hopalong Cassidy watch complete with saddle case. Paid way too much but when I wear it and I do, questions abound. I fancy wind-up watches and have too many but I wear them all at one time or another.
Lastly and this is for the ladies - do you remember the fur collars we used to wear along with the button front sweaters worn backwoods with our 'white bucks'?
It would seem we can keep this thread going on forever. It sure did make me think about my childhood. As an f/y/i not too long ago I bought a real Hopalong Cassidy watch complete with saddle case. Paid way too much but when I wear it and I do, questions abound. I fancy wind-up watches and have too many but I wear them all at one time or another.
Lastly and this is for the ladies - do you remember the fur collars we used to wear along with the button front sweaters worn backwoods with our 'white bucks'?
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Did someone mention how the milk would freeze in the winter and the cream on top push the cardboard cap a few inches up in the air. How about all little boys had to have a cowboy hat and a pair of cap guns strapped to their sides, preferably with Roy Rodgers or Hopalong Cassidys name on them. The movie houses looked like miniature opera houses with a stage and drawn curtains that would open when the movie started. The newsreel news along with Bugs Bunny and the gang and then the movie, all for 25 cents. Sometimes they even had a stage show along with the movie on Friday and Saturday night. That was an expensive 50 cent night. Oh well, sorry for rambling on. Most of this has probably been said already. It's just, I haven't thought of this stuff in years and it brings back a lot of fond memories.
Thanks Weewillie, for making us refresh our minds of the past, remembering our childhood and removing us, if for only a moment, from todays troubled world.
Thanks Weewillie, for making us refresh our minds of the past, remembering our childhood and removing us, if for only a moment, from todays troubled world.
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Blue Tits pecking a hole in the milk bottle cap to take the cream before you could get the bottle indoors.PAUL161 said:
Helping the milkman on his rounds at o-dark hundred.
tony barnhill
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Running along behind the "Fogger" truck in the summer months when they were spraying to kill mosquitoes......
TR6oldtimer
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Ah, the smell of DDT in the spring, it was the smell of victory.
Brosky
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PF Flyer sneakers....and Red Ball Jets..........Converse high tops
Mattel "Fanner 50" 6-guns that actually shot spring loaded plastic bullets. There were several versions of carbine rifles and I think a model of The Rifleman's rifle with the circular lever for fast firing. Those guns were so real you could never sell them today.
Daisy B-B guns...rifles and pistols
Cub Scouts - Boy Scouts - Explorers (God and Country)
Weekend "sub" sales as fund raisers. Usually held in church basements where everyone pitched in to cut the meat, peel and cut onions/vegetables and to hollow out the bread inside the long submarine rolls. Then when they were done, we'd load them on our bikes and deliver them. No board of health, cutting boards with meat and cheeses mixed and wide open mayo jars, but no one ever got sick.
White pumpkin seeds.........great tasting SALTY pumpkin seeds
Mattel "Fanner 50" 6-guns that actually shot spring loaded plastic bullets. There were several versions of carbine rifles and I think a model of The Rifleman's rifle with the circular lever for fast firing. Those guns were so real you could never sell them today.
Daisy B-B guns...rifles and pistols
Cub Scouts - Boy Scouts - Explorers (God and Country)
Weekend "sub" sales as fund raisers. Usually held in church basements where everyone pitched in to cut the meat, peel and cut onions/vegetables and to hollow out the bread inside the long submarine rolls. Then when they were done, we'd load them on our bikes and deliver them. No board of health, cutting boards with meat and cheeses mixed and wide open mayo jars, but no one ever got sick.
White pumpkin seeds.........great tasting SALTY pumpkin seeds
Brosky
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Blue or black low cuts (Converse) with white Wrangler jeans that had frayed bottoms were BIG in my senior year in high school.
The shoes were never tied, but they were laced and the laces folded back inside.
How could I forget these???
Penny Loafers, with shiny pennies inside the lip, in burgundy and light brown
Cuban heels on black dress shoes
The loafer shoes that had the fold down clamp on the top that looked like a big tongue.
Clod hoppers
Motorcycle jackets with lots of chrome on them. And Brando rider hats.
Pack of Camel's or Lucky's rolled in your shirt sleeve.
Tennis sweaters in any color with alternate color V's. But white with blue/red V's was BIG.
More frayed jeans, any color, all straight leg. This before the hippie bell bottoms.
The shoes were never tied, but they were laced and the laces folded back inside.
How could I forget these???
Penny Loafers, with shiny pennies inside the lip, in burgundy and light brown
Cuban heels on black dress shoes
The loafer shoes that had the fold down clamp on the top that looked like a big tongue.
Clod hoppers
Motorcycle jackets with lots of chrome on them. And Brando rider hats.
Pack of Camel's or Lucky's rolled in your shirt sleeve.
Tennis sweaters in any color with alternate color V's. But white with blue/red V's was BIG.
More frayed jeans, any color, all straight leg. This before the hippie bell bottoms.
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TR6oldtimer said:
And none of died from it? That's amazing! If they did that today, according to the EPA, we'd all be dead from it! Must be different stuff than what they used back then!?!? Oh well, pay no attention to me, it's just some of my dark humor. But, yeah, I know DDT is bad stuff, I used to spray for mosquito's with aircraft down in the Mississippi delta bayous with it. Best thing they ever did is when they took it out of circulation. At least in this country, hopefully the world!
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Gundy said:
We had a big RCA color TV sittin' inna living room BEFORE it was broadcast. Me Ol' Fella had a color bar generator set up and we'd fuss over all the alignment of the guns an' such. When the NBC peacock first spread its feathers we had a HOUSE full of friends and relatives there for the event. Big doin's! It was something to recall, that... now I flip open my cellphone and giggle. Young folk think me to be a lunatic.
Yup! Positively giddy at their naievite.
...'scuse me now, me horse needs shod...
